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Pederastic
Pederastic meaning
Relating to a man's erotic love for adolescent boys. | In a manner which suggests pederasty.
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In 1892, three years before Wilde wrote the play, John Gambril Nicholson had published the book of pederastic poetry Love In Earnest.
In his speeches, Aeschines uses pederastic relations of Demosthenes as a means to attack him.
In particular, the orator Aeschines cites laws excluding slaves from wrestling halls and forbidding them to enter pederastic relationships with the sons of citizens.
One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: And Other Essays on Greek Love,'' p.101 Ancient authors also say that Solon regulated pederastic relationships in Athens; this has been presented as an adaptation of custom to the new structure of the polis.
Solon and Early Greek Poetry By Elizabeth Irwin p. 272 n. 24 Solon's presumed pederastic desire was thought in antiquity to have found expression also in his poetry, which is today represented only in a few surviving fragments.